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Elder Futhark rune Sowilo4/18/2024 This analysis checks the interpretations of a popular Odinist writer against secular scholarship, evaluating for both semantic authenticity in the Germanic tradition and runic symbolism within Odinism-a modern religious sect based on pre-Christian roots in Northern Europe. This mystical significance has been reintroduced to neopagan groups through guidebooks on runecasting, a divinatory practice in which the runes are interpreted negatively or positively depending on how they land. It is a dark, feminine power and can been associated with witchcraft and destructive female magic.The Nordic people embodied the Elder Futhark runes-the oldest-known form of the Germanic writing system-with esotericism (knowledge available only to a small group of people), seeing them as a direct line of communication to divinity. It is a clean curse, as the recipient is only experiencing the ill effects of their own accountability. Hagalaz can be used as a curse against others, aimed to bring up their suppressed inner conflicts and thus impeding them. It follows that LAGAZ, from which hail is ultimately made, is also a rune of profound unconscious exploration and personal depth. It reveals the personal past, past lives and early environmental factors in childhood development. Hagalaz has the magical energy of a ‘spring cleaning’. It is used in work to process and dispel the effects of subconscious baggage and ‘shadow elements’ so that your life pattern can carry itself forward in its pure form. Hagalaz can be used as a force of repulsion or banishment. In this sense it is a protective rune, and assists us in acceptance of the unalterable, the seeking of shelter and patience while things blow over. Nine months is one of nature’s most regular human cycles, that of the gestation period for a baby in a mother’s womb. Nine signals completion of a perfect pattern. Spiritual awakening often comes from times of deep crisis.Īs the ninth rune, Hagalaz has a special place in the ordering, as nine has particular significance in the elder futhark. It contains the seed of all the other runic energies and this can be seen in its other form, a six-fold snowflake. The ancients describe hail as a grain rather than as ice, thus creating a metaphor for a deeper truth of life. Hail shocks you with stinging hardness (confrontation) then it melts into water which creates germination of seeds (transformation). Its nature is completely impersonal and it represents power generally beyond human ability to harness. It will uncover the vast flow of energies around and through human energy systems. Hagalaz is the rune of objective confrontation with past patterns. Hagalaz signals a major shift of energies as the Elder Futhark begins its second row of aetts. Protection through banishing or exorcising disharmonious patterns, protectionĪwareness of the unconscious ideas for eventual processingĬausing discomfort in others by awakening their own subconscious ‘garbage’ Hagalaz Rune Meanings Notes: Mundane: bad weather, obstacles, surprises, shelterĭivinations: Change according to ideals, changes for the long-term good, controlled crisis, corrections, completion, inner harmony or catastrophe, crisis, stagnation, loss of power, loss of property, short-term disappointment, victim-consciousness, obsession with the past, blame.Ĭompleteness and balance of power, integration of unconscious shadow elementsĮvolutionary progress and operations of becoming Key Concepts: hailstones, crisis and catastrophe, disruption, radical change, destructive elements of nature, severe weather, the uncontrollable, unavoidable unpleasantness, Jungian shadow, psychoanalysis, regression, acceptance of the unalterableĮnergy: power beyond human ability to harness, perfect pattern, seed formation, objective confrontation, destructive natural forces, chaos Hagalaz – “Hag-all-az” – Literally: “Hail” or “Hailstone” – Esoteric: Crisis or Radical Change “Don’t try to fix what we should break before it breaks us.” Questioning the Runes: Confronting Our Hidden Stories! Get my new book right away on Amazon in Paperback or Kindle: Need help? Sign up for Coaching with Tyriel or the Rune Course. Don't forget The Book of Rune Secrets, available on Amazon.
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